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ETYMOLOGY DICTIONARY:
- microphone (n.)
- 1680s, "ear trumpet for the hard-of-hearing," coined from
Gk. mikros "small" (see mica)
+ phone "sound" (see fame
(n.)). Modern meaning dates from 1929, from use in radio
broadcasting and movie recording. Earlier, "amplifying
telephone transmitter" (1878). Of the two spellings of the
short form of the word, mike (1927) is older than mic (1961).
WICTIONARY -phone
- From Ancient Greek φωνή (phone, “sound”), related to fame.
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